Functional food - a food given an additional function (often one related to health-promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients.
a natural or processed food that contains known biologically-active compounds which when in defined quantitative and qualitative amounts provides a clinically proven and documented health benefit, and an important source in the prevention, management and treatment of chronic diseases
processed food or foods fortified with health-promoting additives, like "vitamin-enriched" products.
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fortification - addition of iodine to table salt, or Vitamin D to milk, done to resolve public health problems such as rickets
fermented foods with live cultures are considered functional foods with probiotic benefits.
Probiotic
Medical food, specially formulated foods to treat diseases with distinctive nutritional needs (e.g., an inability to metabolize a common molecule)
Supplements
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ferment - to cause to undergo or break down an organic substance by chemical change
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Medical microbiology - the study of microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, which cause a human illness and their role in the disease.
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Functional food - a food given an additional function (often one related to health-promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients.
Some examples
Probiotic
Medical food, specially formulated foods to treat diseases with distinctive nutritional needs (e.g., an inability to metabolize a common molecule)
Supplements
What's the problem?
That's engineering
Engineering ideas
Do It
Challenges for you to work on...
News, updates
Learn more...
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